halloo

Other forms of halloo

plural

halloos·

past tense

hallooed·

present participle

hallooing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about halloo

What does halloo mean?

halloo means "urge on with shouts". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in halloo?

halloo has 2 syllables and divides as hal-loo under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is halloo a common word?

halloo is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.